Micah 7:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיְתָ֥ה הָאָ֛רֶץ לִשְׁמָמָ֖ה עַל־יֹֽשְׁבֶ֑יהָ מִפְּרִ֖י מַֽעַלְלֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And hāyətāh the-ʾāreṣ to-šəmāmāh because of-its yōšəbêhā, from-pərî their maʿaləlêhem.

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *hāyətāh*: Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - has become/will become
• *hā-ʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land/earth
• *li-šəmāmāh*: preposition + feminine singular noun - to desolation
• *ʿal*: preposition - because of/on account of
• *yōšəbêhā*: Qal participle, masculine plural with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - its inhabitants
• *mi-pərî*: preposition + masculine singular construct noun - from/because of fruit of
• *maʿaləlêhem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their deeds/practices

Word Meanings

• *hāyətāh*: has become/will become/shall be
• *ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/ground
• *šəmāmāh*: desolation/waste/wilderness
• *yōšəbêhā*: its inhabitants/dwellers/residents
• *pərî maʿaləlêhem*: fruit of their deeds/result of their actions/consequence of their practices

Referenced Verses

• Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.
• Jer 25:11 : 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
• Jer 32:19 : 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
• Dan 4:26-27 : 26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule. 27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
• Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
• Mic 6:13 : 13 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.
• Luke 21:20-24 : 20 But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand. 21 Then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter {G1519} therein. 22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 {G1161} Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath unto this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
• Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.
• Isa 6:11-13 : 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste, 12 and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land. 13 And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
• Isa 24:3-8 : 3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
• Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
• Jer 21:14 : 14 And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
• Lev 26:33-39 : 33 And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
• Job 4:8 : 8 According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.
• Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
• Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
• Prov 31:31 : 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.